Osama bin Laden’s son threatens world revenge for father’s assassination

The son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened
revenge against the U.S. for assassinating his father, according to an
audio message posted online.
Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the global militant group's fight
against theU.S. and its allies in the 21-minute speech entitled "We
Are All Osama," according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
"We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and
abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine,
Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim
lands that did not survive your oppression," Hamza said.
"As for the revenge by the Islamic nation for Sheikh Osama, may Allah
have mercy on him, it is not revenge for Osama the person but it is
revenge for those who defended Islam."
Osama bin Laden was killed at his Pakistani hideout by U.S. commandos
in 2011 in a major blow to the militant group which carried out the
Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Documents recovered from bin Laden's compound and published by the
U.S. last year alleged that his aides tried to reunite the militant
leader with Hamza, who had been held under house arrest in Iran.
Hamza, now in his mid-twenties, was at his father's side in
Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks and spent time with him in
Pakistan after the U.S.-led invasion pushed much of al Qaeda's senior
leadership there, according to the Brookings Institution.
Introduced by the organisation's new chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in an
audio message last year, Hamza provides a younger voice for the group
whose ageing leaders have struggled to inspire militants around the
world galvanized by Islamic State.
"Hamza provides a new face for al Qaeda, one that directly connects to
the group's founder. He is an articulate and dangerous enemy,"
according to Bruce Riedel of Brookings.